The Garden Path (tuxdb.com)

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Far from your old life, you find yourself a new wilderness - a life once lived in these dense woods, waiting to be rediscovered.
The Garden Path explores the quiet moments of a life well lived, where your garden will grow to reflect both the passing of time and your own design. Time here runs in concert with the real world, and the passing of seasons heralds new encounters and a new story to weave.
Above all, The Garden Path is a life sim that celebrates the tranquil and the pensive, a tucked-away place to shape and grow as you like.

Designed to be played as and when you wish, The Garden Path features a wealth of stories, activities and distractions to be experienced at your own pace. Don’t have time to watch your flowers grow? Come back tomorrow: time in the garden passes alongside the real world, and you’ll find plants you nurtured one day may bloom the next.

You won’t be alone in your new home. Charming inhabitants will come and go, from Bunk, the tea-brewing macaque to Larto, a Greenlandic Musk Ox with a penchant for song-fish. You may even find some visitors willing to make their home alongside your own!

The garden is calm and still. A tender world of familiar sights and sounds, melody, and friendly faces. A space to call your own, to curate, and to reflect.

With a unique hand-drawn aesthetic, The Garden Path’s stunning visual design embraces you from the start, inviting you in and welcoming you to stay. Combined with unique soundtracks for both day and night, it won't be long before you're lost in the flow.

Features:

A humble gardening life-sim with real-time progress even when you’re away.
Rich illustrated visuals and original soundtracks that draw you in.
A charming cast of characters, all with their own stories to tell.
A far away corner to call your own - somewhere to pause and stay awhile.

March Update ~ Introducing Buttercup and more game updates!

Hello gardeners,

If you follow The Garden Path on other platforms such as Twitter or TikTok, then youll likely have met some of The Gardens vegetable-headed residents. From Caroline to Art, Molly to Otto, Ive been sharing some facts about the folk you might meet during your play.

I thought it would only be fitting to share a little bit more about some of the animal travellers that will wander through The Garden from time to time - sharing wares in addition to some wise words.

Who else could we start with, then, on National Pig Day?

So please welcome Buttercup...

Buttercup is a British Landrace Pig who loves digging through the earth and mud. With a cheery, cheeky attitude, Buttercup is a classic salt of the earth kind and is a treasure to meet.

Most of her time is spent underground mining for irrigation. However, its not unlike her to get lost on occasion and shes known for scrambling up and stumbling into growing gardens ~ much like your own.

Still, getting lost is a difficult business. As such, Buttercup is likely to take a break and treat herself to a reinvigorating cup of tea while taking her well-deserved rest.

Because of her time underground, Buttercup has managed to collect an impressive cluster of different soils. If youre lucky enough to catch her while shes above-ground, then be sure to offer her a fine brew, and maybe youll get a sample of her collection in exchange.
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Game Updates

The player map is being revisited, now generating itself automatically according to the layout of trees, rivers and bridges. It still needs a bit of work, but helps to provide a more accurate overview of the garden, and will change now as the garden changes. It also alleviates my task of hand-drawing each map portion, as it was done previously.
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Bunk's new artwork has finally landed, along with a refresh to the tea-pouring visualizer.
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New reeds and rocks decorate the rivers and water-ways, helping them visually settle into the garden's landscape.

A subtle new foliage effect has been added to the game, where the artwork slowly fades in and amongst itself, giving it a better feeling of depth, and a more ethereal mood to the garden, without being distracting.
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Caoimhe will now find their way into the garden, and will be stocking up on the latest garbs and trends for your character to don.
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...And because small touches are important, there's now a subtle dust animation when the player runs, and you'll leave behind little footprints in your trail.
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But there's more that's yet-to-come this month.

Soon, depending on how keen-eyed your character is, you'll begin to notice spots for treasure, either buried underground or tucked into the nooks of trees. Among other goodies, you can begin to unlock the old gardener's journal this way, and learn more about the old garden.
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And finally, Cold's Pass will soon be arriving to the game, an end-of-year ceremony to say goodbye to the cold weather, and welcome in the new spring. Seems particularly fitting this time of year...
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